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pheric thriller The Bat (1926). At Fox,
Edeson shot the all-outdoor, 100-percent
talkie In Old Arizona (1929), as well as the
first Fox Grandeur 70mm film, The Big
Trail (1930). He later worked at Universal
and MGM, and eventually settled in at
Warner Bros., where he would remain
until his 1949 retirement. He died on Feb.
14, 1970.
Eugene Gaudio
The brother of future ASC member
Tony Gaudio was born in Italy on Dec. 31,
1886. Growing up, he learned photography in his father's portrait studio. After
coming to the U.S., he served as lab superintendent, but when he arrived in California in 1915, he came out of the darkroom
and went behind the camera for Universal
Film Manufacturing Co. - now Universal
Pictures. The best known of his efforts
there was on the 1916 silent production
of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
He later photographed films for
Metro's stars Alla Nazimova and May
Allison. His final work was with actress
and producer Bessie Barriscale's B.B.
Features. He died on Aug. 1, 1920.

Fred LeRoy Granville
Born in Warrnambool, Victoria,
Australia, in 1886, Granville was
educated in New Zealand. He became
interested in photography as a child. His
first experience with cinematography
came in 1913 at the Selig Polyscope
studio in Edendale, near downtown Los
Angeles. Granville photographed the
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t Lawrence D. Clawson (left) at work on The
Patent Leather Kid (1927). p Arthur Edeson, ASC.
u Eugene Gaudio, ASC.

documentary Rescue of the Stefansson
Arctic Expedition (1914), as well as a
number of features and serials for
Universal, including The Heart of Humanity (1918). He also shot several of
cowboy actor Tom Mix's early Fox
features. In 1920, Granville moved to
England, where he worked as a cinematographer and director into the mid1920s. He died in London on Nov. 14,
1932.

Walter L. Griffin
Born in Fort Worth, Texas, on July
19, 1889, Griffin first cranked a camera
for Universal in 1914. In 1915, he joined
the Exposition Players Corp., the official
cinematographers of the Panama-Pacific
International Exposition in San Francisco. Returning to Hollywood, Griffin
signed on with the National Film Corp.,
where he shot some 25 comedies
featuring National's owner, William
"Smiling Bill" Parsons.

Fred LeRoy Granville, ASC operates the camera
for The Coming of the Law (1919).
ASC 100th Anniversary

Griffin's best-remembered film
is Nomads of the North (1920), starring
Lon Chaney. Through the early 1920s, the
cinematographer shot low-budget Westerns, and in the mid-'20s, he shot a
number of modest melodramas, including Rose of the Bowery (1927), The Heart
of Broadway (1928) and The City of Purple
Dreams (1928). He retired from films in
1928 and died in Ventura, Calif., on March
25, 1954.

Joseph Devereaux Jennings
Born in Utah on Sept. 22, 1884,
Jennings began his film career around
1910. His earliest confirmed credits are
with Thomas H. Ince's unit of the New
York Motion Picture Co. He went on to
photograph Fame and Fortune (1918), The
Daredevil (1920) and other Tom Mix
features. Later in the '20s, Jennings shot
several of Buster Keaton's best-known
comedies, including The General (1926)
and Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928). At the
dawn of the Sound Era, Jennings
photographed the two-color Technicolor extravaganzas Bride of the Regiment and Golden Dawn (both 1930). He
was also behind the camera on the classic gangster film The Public Enemy
(1931).
As the 1930s continued, he began
to concentrate on visual-effects work,
finally settling in at Paramount Pictures,
where his brother Gordon headed the
effects department. He died on March
12, 1952.

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